Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine | Members

Chairwoman
Substitute member, OÄ Dr Susanne Hölbfer

Head of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Wilhelminenspital of the KAV, Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna, President of the Austrian Society for Psychosomatics in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (ÖGPGG), President of the Austrian Society for Family Planning (ÖGF), Member of the Supreme Medical Council of the Federal Ministry of Health, sworn expert witness

Deputy member
Substitute member, Dr Anna Bucsics

Ernst Agneter (*27.4.1963 in Vienna), Dr. med. from the University of Vienna 1989, specialist in pharmacology and toxicology 1996, authorisation to teach pharmacology and toxicology 2000, Chair of Pharmacology at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna 2018. Agneter worked for the Ministry of Health in the area of drug approvals and monitoring and as Medical and Marketing Director for an international pharmaceutical company. He also holds a licence for the wholesale of pharmaceuticals and poisons (2001), a Master of Advanced Studies (2001) and a Master of Business Administration (2004). Since 2001, he has been Managing Director of Agneter PharmaConsulting GmbH, specialising in drug assessments, reimbursement and strategic consulting for pharmaceutical companies, as well as a member of several national and international pharmacological and pharmaceutical societies, and a board member of Karl-Landsteiner (since 2010) and the Society of Physicians in Vienna (since 2019).

Deputy member
Substitute member, Dr Georg Leixner

1990-1996 University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria; M. D. degree: May 1996; 1996-1997 Military service at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Military Hospital Vienna; 1997-1999 Medical training in internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and traumatology in several Viennese hospitals; 1999 Medical training at the Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, (head: Prof. Dr. O. Wagner), General Hospital of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2002 Associate Professor for Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, at the Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics; teaching focus: Laboratory Medicine

Full member
Substitute member, Prof Dr Michael Memmer

Academic background: Studied law; 1991 graduated as Mag. iur.; 1992 court internship; doctoral studies and dissertation on “Ethical and legal aspects of the medical duty to inform” 1994 graduated as Dr. iur.; 1992 to 1995 university assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. Since 1995 legal assistant at the Vienna Nursing and Patient Ombudsman’s Office, deputy to the Vienna Nursing and Patient Ombudsman, head of the ELGA ombudsman’s office in Vienna. Main areas of work and research: Medical law, in particular patients’ rights, medical malpractice law; out-of-court settlement of claims for damages in the event of medical injuries

Full member
Substitute member, Prof Dr Ralf-Dieter Hilgers

Prof. Dr Nicole Heussen is a biostatistician. After studying statistics in Dortmund, she completed her doctorate in theoretical medicine and habilitated in medical biometry and clinical epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at RWTH Aachen University. There she teaches and conducts research at the Institute of Medical Statistics. In April 2016, she was appointed Professor of Evidence-based Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna. “Making complex statistical topics understandable for non-statisticians is a particular concern of mine.”
Teaching focus: evidence-based medicine, biostatistics, epidemiology

Full member
Substitute member, Dr Katharina Georg

Head of the “Paediatric Dentistry” module of the Master’s degree course in Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna; advanced training diploma from the Austrian Dental Association in paediatric dentistry
2014-2018 Assistant dentist at the University Clinic of Dentistry Vienna
2008-2014 Studied dentistry at the Medical University of Vienna

Full member
Substitute member, Mag. pharm. Stefan Deibl PhD

Studies in pharmacy (1987-1993), clinical pharmacy (1998-2001), healthcare management (2002-2004) and doctoral studies in pharmacy (doctorate 2005). Specialist pharmacist for hospital pharmacy (2006) and specialist pharmacist for quality circles (2019-2021). Managing pharmacist in Vienna (since 2008), member of various commissions and advisory boards, board member of Pharmacists Without Borders Austria (since 2019).

Full member
Substitute member, Prim. Priv. Doz. Dr Robert Berent

Doctorate in medicine univ. at the University of Vienna in 1977. 1982 Awarded the Ius practicandi, followed by a one-year study visit to Guy’s Hospital London with training in invasive electrophysiology. 1989/1991 Specialist in internal medicine/cardiology. 1992 awarded the venia docendi, since 1997 associate professor at the University of Vienna. From 1994, establishment and management of the rhythmology working group specialising in invasive electrophysiology (> 4400 interventions) and implantable defibrillators at Vienna General Hospital. 1988, 1993, 1997 and 2000 Awarded the Austrian Cardiologist, Rhythmologist and State Prize by the Federal Ministry of Health. Over 100 publications as first, co- and senior author.

Full member
University Professor for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

Full member
Substitute member, Martina Hiemetzberger